Saturday, January 13, 2018

"They will bring with them the principles ofthe governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth;or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchangefor an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual,from one extreme to another. It would be a miraclewere they to stop precisely at the point of temperateliberty.

These principles, with their language,they will transmit to their children. In proportionto their numbers, they will share with us the legislation.They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and biasits direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass."—Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on the State of Virginia" (1785)

The Reform Club, c. 1915

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